“I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.”
“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.”
“Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.”
“There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God.”
“I have been laid up with intentional flu.”
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”